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bougainvillaea
Word definitions for bougainvillaea in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of bougainvillea English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see bougainvillea .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bougainvillaea \Bou`gain*vil*l[ae]`a\, n. [Named from Bougainville, the French navigator.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginace[ae] , from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.
Usage examples of bougainvillaea.
At first, nearer the house, there were roses and bougainvillaea, poinsettia and banks of phlox, that formed bright bold slashes of colour, against a veld still brown from the long dry winter just passed, but nearer the stream the fields of maize were tended by convalescents from the mission clinic, and soon on the tall green plants the immature cobs would begin to set.
The courtyard is enclosed by a stone fence which bougainvillaea covers like bunting and there is a crucifix atop the arched gate.
The night flowers exhale their bloom, bougainvillaea and hibiscus and magnolia are still and shadowy in the night.
I listened, but all I could hear was the busy rustling of the bougainvillaea in the evening wind outside.
Even the leaves of the bougainvillaea had turned brown, and the carefully-nurtured grass along the side of the driveway seemed to have shrivelled and dried.
The bougainvillaea was vibrant against the whitewashed walls that enclosed the hotel grounds.
He looked both ways and saw a bougainvillaea tumbling down the wall opposite a drinking fountain.
Now it was a tangle of vegetationmulberry trees, uncontrolled bougainvillaea bushes that had grown to giant proportions and sent great sprigs of purple flowers skywards, paw-paw trees with rotting fruit on the stems.
It looked like a bordello for wealthy Mexicans, all white stucco and red tile, with fountains in the courtyard and bougainvillaea creeping along its flanks.
There was a scent of bougainvillaea on the air and the sound of birds, foraging in the morning before the heat got too bad.
Through the plate glass two swallows darted into the bougainvillaea and disappeared in the leaves.
Everywhere, it seemed, there were towering palms, tropical bushes, bougainvillaea, tall magnolia trees.
Carolina jessamine and poison ivy coaxed to adopt the genetics of bougainvillaea and orchids, tall pines persuaded to stoop to adopt their new crowns of palm fronds.
Around the pool there were whitewashed walls where the jasmine, roses and bougainvillaea seemed to bloom almost all the year round.
Leaning against the chair there was a half-completed watercolour painting of bougainvillaea flowers.